Notes

7] A manuscript version written Sept. 26, 1849, reverses "I" and "she" (George Edward Woodberry, The Life of Edgar Allan Poe [Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1909], II, 352). Never content unless tinkering, Poe this time did not improve his work (e.g., line 41). Back to Line

15] cloud, chilling: the manuscript version of Sept. 26 reads "cloud by night". Back to Line

16] My beautiful: the manuscript version of Sept. 26 reads "Chilling my". Back to Line

25] cloud by night: the manuscript version of Sept. 26 reads "cloud, chilling". Back to Line

26] Chilling and killing: the manuscript version of Sept. 26 reads "And killing". Back to Line

33] Possibly indebted to the Episcopal funeral service and its use of Romans 8:38-39: "For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord" (cited by Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe [Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969], I, 481). Back to Line

36] feel: the manuscript version of Sept. 26 reads "see". Back to Line

41] by the sounding sea: the manuscript version of Sept. 26 reads "by the side of the sea". Back to Line